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Articles tagged rails-rescue

Getting started with a legacy Rails application

There's a good chance that your next Rails job will involve working with an existing application. Here's how I've recently gone about learning several new-to-me codebases. (May 11, 2020)

Diary of a Rails rescue project, part 2: Testing

Notes on using tests to learn about legacy software. (April 16, 2013)

Diary of a Rails rescue project

Notes from the field as bring a long-neglected Rails application up to speed. (March 21, 2013)

More advice on legacy data migration in Rails

What do you do if your legacy data defies convention or is just generally complex? Here are some notes from my recent experience using rake to accomplish difficult data migrations. (December 11, 2011)

Migrate data to Rails applications with Trucker

Get legacy data? Trucker makes moving it from old codebases into new Rails apps with relative ease. (September 16, 2011)

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